Theory of ReligionZone Books, 1989 - 126 páginas Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No other work of Bataille’s, and perhaps no other work anywhere since Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has managed to draw so incisively the links between man’s religious and economic activities. |
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... mediation . But the divinity intentionally invokes crime ; mediation is the joint accomplishment of violence and of the being that it rends . In reality the sacrifice of the moral divinity is never the unfathomable mystery that one ...
... mediation and of works of salvation is led from the start to exceed its limits . Not only are the violences that morality condemns set free on all sides , but a tacit debate is initiated between the works of salvation , which serve the ...
... mediation and upheld a transcendence of the divine world , which conformed to the military type of a violence directed to the outside . But what is true of early Islam is not at all true of late Islam . Once the Moslem empire reached ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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